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They had hair dyed pink and orange, heads covered by baseball caps, a bowler hat, a beanie and at least one hijab. A few foreheads were smudged with black for Ash Wednesday. One head eventually emerged above the rest, shining with sweat and humidity, and flanked by white hairs scattered in all directions like a…
Updated 2:55 p.m. The Democratic National Committee is no longer listed as a partner of the Women’s March, the latest prominent organization to abandon the movement ahead of its third annual event on Saturday. The Women’s March has been plagued for nearly a year by accusations of anti-Semitism against its leaders, which has also prompted…
“Ivanka Trump Is A Hypocrite” announced the Democratic National Committee on Thursday. In a surprisingly relentless takedown of the first daughter and presidential advisor, the DNC bashed Ivanka Trump’s participation in the administration’s “Hire Americans” campaign, given the practices of her own fashion line. Trump’s products, wrote Elizabeth Renda, a spokeswoman for the Democrats, are…
The parents of the murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich are suing Fox News over their coverage of his death, claiming the network “intentionally exploited” the story as political cannon fodder, the Washington Post reported. In May 2017, nearly a year after Rich’s unsolved murder in Washington, D.C., Fox News claimed to have evidence that Rich…
Donna Brazile, the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, writes that she “feared for her life” after the killing of Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer, in June 2016. According to excerpts published by the Washington Post, Brazile began shutting the blinds of her office to thwart snipers and installed a security system in…
In an empty Washington bar on a steamy summer afternoon, a young actor tasked with playing the role of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich is leaning on the counter, downing one shot after the other. “Are you okay, son?,” the actor playing the bartender asks, refusing to pour him another round. “Yeah, I’m okay,” he…
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday she wasn’t sure if President Trump believed a conspiracy theory that’s brought Fox News under fire. A lawsuit filed Tuesday reportedly claims that the White House and a wealthy Trump supporter encouraged Fox News to peddle a story about the 2016 death of Democratic National Committee…
Fox News worked with a wealthy Republican donor to concoct and promote a conspiracy theory about the death of a Democratic National Committee aide in order to deflect attention away from President Trump’s Russia woes, a lawsuit by a longtime Fox contributor alleges. The tangled web involves Rod Wheeler, a former cop and Fox talking…
THE TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CENTER and Virtual
Aug 10, 2022
7 pm ET ·
Will the last Jew left in New York’s congressional delegation be reelected? Will New York’s senior congresswoman receive another term? Or will one of the newcomers upend Manhattan politics?
